Hey, I'm Danie! Nice to meet ya. Well, sort of. *DISCLAIMER: My
political beliefs have evolved a ton since I answered the vast
majority of the match questions, so some of it really doesn't quite
match how I actually feel now, but I haven't gotten the chance to
retake them* Let's see, basics...I identify as female/tomboy (I
will refer to myself as a woman, but not a lady. If you saw my
mannerisms, you'd know why. I'm pretty tomboyish), I'm half-Korean,
half white (Jewish), I was raised reform Jewish but I'm more just
spiritual now, strongly left-leaning/liberal politically, and I'm
queer, specifically, bisexual. For me, bisexual doesn't operate on
a binary. I think of it like two broader categories of people of
the same gender as me, and people of different genders from me,
too. But in all honesty, I prefer queer because it's not only a
sexual identity but a political and almost philosophical one as
well, and I feel like it aptly represents how I relate to the
world. I am an overall optimist, a realist, and a dreamer. I'm a
science person, but that does not mean I place logic over feelings.
Quite the contrary, personally, I tend to rely on feelings in life.
I'm a strong ENFP, as in the description on most sites is DEAD-ON.
Most of you probably don't know what that means, but I think those
MBTI tests are really cool! I'm a huge nerd, geek, and dork. I'm
weird, and damn proud of it!
I'm comfortable in my skin, and I like being me, and being with
people who are comfortable with that. I don't like to hold back
parts of my personality because of how people might perceive me,
because if people can't handle me for who I am, that just weeds out
the lame people, and leaves me with the cool ones :)

I'm from Huntington Beach, but I'm currently a student in
Claremont. I'm majoring in either Biology or Neuroscience and
minoring in Gender & Women's Studies, but my concentration is
pre-med. I'm getting some experience working as a research
assistant in a lab doing a study on biological factors of gender
identity and sexual orientation. I want to be a doctor, and while I
have plenty of time to figure that out, I would have to say my
dream would be to become an endocrinologist for the trans*
community. In the meantime, I'm focusing on trying to find balance
in my life--social life and academics, time
management/organization, etc--to maximize my happiness. I feel like
I know myself pretty well, and I'm comfortable and happy with who I
am, but I'm still workin' out the little details--bear with me :P

Listening and openly sharing my experiences, opinions, and
feelings. Making people feel comfortable opening up to me. Learning
languages, particularly, I'm very good with Spanish. I'm good at
articulating ideas, whether they're mine or someone else's, I can
put whatever it is into words, or supply you with that one nuanced
word that's on the tip of your tongue but so enragingly escapes
your mind. I'm good at actively communicating feelings in
interpersonal relationships, and it's important to me. For better
or for worse, I'm good at growing to love and care for people very
deeply, sometimes too much, but having strong friendships is worth
getting hurt sometimes.
I think apathy is the biggest plague of our generation. I think
everyone, as human beings, should give a damn about something other
than themselves, take a stand, and be passionate. I care
tremendously about a lot in life.

Alternatively, I'm REALLY good at being a major dork, geek, nerd,
weirdo--anything in that spectrum. I'm really good at embarassing
myself. Well actually, I'm good at being completely comfortable
with finding myself in situations in which NORMAL people would
undoubtedly be embarassed. I'm good at being ADHD. REALLY good at
that. Along with that, of course, comes procrastination.
I'm good at having freaky fingers. They're majorly double-jointed,
people often ask if I broke them in the past.
Being Danie. Randomly talking in accents. Queersmirking. Facebook
stalking. Entertaining myself easily. Telling stories. Laughing at
inappropriate times. Shoving large amounts of food in my mouth at a
time (this somehow is a favorite partytrick among my friends that
they like to challenge me to with dares ie: I bet you can't finish
that quesadilla in 4 bites). IDENTIFYING POKEMON BY THEIR CRIES.
I'm particularly proud of that one. Challenge me, I dare you.
Edit: I've set a different Pokemon cry to each contact in my phone
that goes off when they text me, and I can know from even across
the room who texted. Best decision ever.

Well, that I'm short, I guess. Then maybe my hair, cuz it's short
and asymmetrical. Then my voice, it's pretty low and has a raspy
quality, and I tend to use it very loudly and very often.
Personality-wise, people tend to notice that I'm pretty extroverted
and outspoken. I've also been told that the first thing people
notice about me is that I'm queer...Hahaha

Books:
The Grapes of Wrath (all-time favorite), The Great Gatsby, Waiting
for Godot, The Little Prince, Hamlet, The Importance of Being
Earnest, Frankenstein, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, To Kill a
Mockingbird, Catch-22, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,
Othello, The Alchemist, The Crucible, The Sun Also Rises, East of
Eden, Siddhartha, The Harry Potter series, The Merlin Series, The
Da Vinci Code, A Streetcar Named Desire, Anpao, The Scarlet Letter,
The Giver, Fahrenheit 451
Poetry: e.e. cummings is my absolute favorite poet ever. He's
brilliant the way he plays with syntax and spelling and all these
conventions to give his poems deeper meanings. Just ah. So amazing.
If you're not familiar with him, check him out! I also like
Emerson, Poe, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Neruda, Sylvia Plath
(admittedly a very depressing lady), and sometimes traditional
Japanese haikus.

Shows:
House, Criminal Minds, So You Think You Can Dance, Avatar: The Last
Airbender, The Big Bang Theory (currently super addicted), It's
Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Monk, Psych, Law and Order: Special
Victims Unit, NCIS, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Project Runway,
Top Chef, CSI, The L Word, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Burn Notice,
The George Lopez Show, Heroes, Kyle XY, Ghost Whisperer,
Jerseylicious (cuz it's frickin' hilarious)
Anime! I like mostly shonen-type series, but I like some shojo ones
too, and sometimes when I'm in the mood for super cutesy, I'll
watch BL. I occasionally watch ecchi just for the lolz. Some of my
favorite anime series include: Soul Eater, Death Note, Ouran High
School Host Club, Dragonball Z, Blue Exorcist, No.6, and I'm going
to count Pokemon(!!!) and Digimon as well.
Korean Dramas--I'm not an addict but I definitely like them! I
don't typically end up finishing a drama, though :/ But my
favorites include: My Lovely Samsoon, Lie to Me, Secret Garden,
Protect the Boss, Boys Over Flowers

Music:
I prefer rock, metal, alternative, and any hybrid of those genres.
But I'm okay with listening to most music, at least in moderation.
Sometimes I'm in the mood for top 40s stuff (though I'm really not
a fan of rap), and other times I'm in the mood for flamenco guitar
music or KPop. But the three I listed first are my home base, so to
speak. I also play acoustic guitar, mostly just whatever I want to
play, music that I like, but also flamenco.
My favorite groups include: Mago de Oz (Spanish Celtic/symphonic
metal band. TOTALLY badass and their lyrics are beautiful. I kind
of am desperately seeking someone who shares my love for this band,
not gonna lie.), The Killers, The Beatles, Mumford and Sons, Tegan
and Sara (OMG, they are both so hot. Just had to throw that out
there), P!nk, Death Cab for Cutie, CNBlue, Coldplay, Panic! At the
Disco, Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Clazziquai, The Rolling
Stones, Muse, Franz Ferdinand, Electric Light Orchestra (ELO),
Simon & Garfunkel, Dragonforce, Rata Blanca (Argentinian power
metal band), Shakira, Juanes, Mana, Mika, SHINee, Cold War Kids,
Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Andy Grammer, Bon Jovi, The Offspring, Rise
Against, SS501, Belle & Sebastian, T-Max, My Chemical
Romance

Food:
I love food. I frickin' love it. I tend to eat as much as a
morbidly obese man would...Trying to work on controlling that a
bit, heh. I love comfort foods. My favorite cuisines are: Mexican,
Italian, Korean, Japanese. More or less in order. I love junk food,
but I've been trying to eat less of it lately.

I also want to list some extra favorites....
Favorite sports:
Fighting arts FOR THE WIN. Brazilian Jiu-jitsu is my favorite. Then
Muay Thai. I was also on the all-guys wrestling team my freshman
year of highschool. I started up capoeira last semester, though it
feels more like dance than a fighting art in a lot of ways. And I'm
currently enrolled in Kung Fu, which I've always wanted to learn,
especially ever since I watched Avatar: the Last Airbender. Btdubs,
I'm probably a waterbender, but I have some similarities to
earthbenders, too. I also love Muggle Quidditch. Not kidding here,
we started a team up at my highschool, but we really didn't play by
the rules. I also like snowboarding and scuba diving.

Favorite videogames:
POKEMON. Golden Sun (best freaking RPG series ever), Paper Mario
and the Thousand Year Door, Super Smash Bros series, Guitar Hero,
RockBand, Just Dance, Super Mario Sunshine, Harvest Moon series,
Animal Crossing, The Legend of Zelda series, Final Fantasy series,
Spore, Kirby games. I've always wanted to get into Kingdom Hearts,
and I plan to do so when I have a bit more time. I'm loyal to
Nintendo. RPGs tend to be my favorites.

Oh man, I spend way too much time thinking about everything. I
think a lot about life, my place in it, and my relationships with
the people in my life. I love thinking about social justice, queer
and feminist issues, and am especially fascinated by gender these
days. I think a lot about the intersectionality of identities. I
don't always think about such grand stuff, though. A good majority
of the time, I'm thinking about some funny thing that happened
yesterday or last week or even years ago and randomly bursting out
laughing, or I'm musing on something dumb like how I would look
terrible bald because I have such a lumpy head from bumping into
stuff, or how saying "fort fort fort fort fort" makes that word
start to sound preeeeetty silly after a while.

Spending time with my friends, unwinding from a long week of
school. Sometimes we go to kickbacks, but in all honesty, I just
like spending time with the people I love without having to
necessarily go out and do something. Not that I'm opposed to that
though, that can be cool too!

I have only 1 eye. My left eye is prosthetic because I had
retinoblastoma (cancer of the retina) when I was 22 months old (I'm
fine, and no I can't see out of it). This actually isn't really
private. I'm totally open about this.
Another thing that I wouldn't necessarily call private but don't
actively bother explaining to everyone is that I identify as
female, but not cisgender. Not exactly something everyone gets, but
if you're curious, you can ask me about it.
I'm honestly a pretty open book. I'm comfortable talking about
myself and a wide range of topics. One thing I'd like to say is
that because I do feel so comfortable talking about more personal
or racy topics like my opinions on sexual things, and I make lots
of sexual jokes, people tend to think that I'm a very sexual
person. In reality, I'm actually not. I'm not someone who is
sexually motivated; emotions are where my focus lies in a
relationship, and for me personally, sex should be a means of
expressing that emotion and bonding, I'm not into sex for just sex.
I don't pass judgement on anyone who feels otherwise, though,
that's just me.
Random personal facts?
I had an imaginary brother named Goku (yes, after DBZ) from the
time that I was 4 to 7. I would make him have countless offspring
on a regular basis and drew them all the time (often times without
clothes, I went through a weird phase of drawing people naked for a
little while o_O)...I did not realize the implications of his
overactive babymaking until much, much later...
Umm...I have really flat feet. My right foot is slightly more flat,
though, to the point that if I'm walking on tile or wood barefoot,
my right foot makes that awkward farting suction sound if I take a
firm enough step. Attractive, I know.

You think I seem interesting, cool, attractive--whatever. Your
call, really!
Definitely message me if you share quirky/specific interests with
me like Pokemon, Golden Sun, Modernist lit (including but not
limited to Steinbeck and Fitzgerald), e.e. cummings (he's my
favorite poet ever, I get way excited whenever I find someone else
who likes him), Poe, Shakespeare, Spanish language,
zeugma/syllepsis, digimon, queer stuff, Mago de Oz
(Celtic/symphonic metal band from Spain, I have yet to find someone
who listens to them D:), stream of consciousne--wow I am really all
over the place here, this all makes me sound like much more of an
English nerd than I am, I have so many other interests that I can't
even think of at the moment that I geek out over upon finding
others who like them too--
Oh, go ahead and message me if you DID know what I meant by ENFP,
and/or if you knew your MBTI type off the top of your head! I love
finding people who actually are interested in that stuff!
Message me if you can talk martial arts with me! When I talk about
it, most people just don't...get it. It's kinda disappointing, so
if you're into martial arts, it'd be cool to chat!
Hell, message me if you like the way I talk even, I guess. I dunno,
that's something that tends to pique my interest in people. You can
message me if it makes you happy that I spelled "pique" correctly;
I know I get mildly excited when I see that.

You should not message me if:
You're just gonna say hi or what's up or tell me you think I'm
attractive with no intention of holding an engaging conversation
beyond that.
You're looking for cybersex or actual sex.
You're just gonna message me to ask if I want to meet up,
especially if it's based on appearance, and not cuz you read my
profile and thought I was interesting.
You're a cisgender straight guy (or anyone else, at that) who
believes in enforcing heteronormative gender roles.
You're a white person (or anyone else, at that) who believes that
reverse racism exists.